Posted on 02/03/2006 5:02:32 PM PST by abu afak
A leading US evangelist is forming an umbrella organization under which all pro-Israel Christians in America can speak as one in support of the Jewish state.
Pastor John C. Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, is to launch Christians United for Israel (CUFI) at an invitation-only "Summit on Israel" next Tuesday at his Cornerstone Church.
The Texas-size church seats 5,000 worshipers and has some 17,000 members, but the summit will host a much smaller congregation: the spiritual leaders of an estimated 30 million US Christians.
"Think of CUFI as a Christian version of AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee]," Hagee told The Jerusalem Post. "We need to be able to respond instantly to Washington with our concerns about Israel. We must join forces to speak as one group and move as one body to [respond to] the crisis Israel will be facing in the near future."
Hagee declined to specify which crisis, noting that Israel faces one "every day the sun comes up." But at the top of the CUFI agenda is what the pastor calls "the Bible issue," namely what he considers to be the mistaken policy of trading parts of the biblical Land of Israel for peace, an agenda that AIPAC, for example, neglects.
Accordingly, Hagee says, CUFI intends to "interact with the government in Washington" and persuade it "to stop pressuring Israel to give up land for peace. Besides the fact that this does not work, Israel has a Bible mandate for the land. Now that Gaza has been given to Hamas, it has a military foothold a thousand yards from Jerusalem." ..."
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Accordingly, Hagee says, CUFI intends to "interact with the government in Washington" and persuade it "to stop pressuring Israel to give up land for peace. Besides the fact that this does not work, Israel has a Bible mandate for the land. Now that Gaza has been given to Hamas, it has a military foothold a thousand yards from Jerusalem." ..."
And maybe the reason AIPAC "neglects" this is because it is actually listening to the Israeli people, who are sick and tired of religious nuts from Brooklyn or Mississippi trying to "help" them by pressuring them into ultra militant policies that they no longer want. The Israeli people have made the reasoned ("reasoned", Hagee. "reasoned") decision that they cannot get mired down in trying to rule 2 million Palestinians forever. Which is essentially what Hagee is demanding that Israel do and the Israelis are sick and tired of trying to do.
Washington isn't "pressuring" Israel into consolidating its lines behind a defensible perimiter. The Israelis understand perfectly well for themselves that the position in Gaza was untenable, costly, and indefensible and they will no longer be blackmailed by religious nuts.
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Love Hagee! Count me in! His new book "Jerusalem Countdown" is FABULOUS! I highly recommend it.
I would love to see a new political party with James Dobson running for President and Hagee as Vice.
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I watched it! Awesome!
And maybe the reason AIPAC "neglects" this is because it is actually listening to the Israeli people, who are sick and tired of religious nuts from Brooklyn or Mississippi trying to "help"
Hagee is from TX. Where does Mississippi fit into
this equation of yours?
Baptist ping sorta
I wonder if this had anything to do with it
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551776/posts
The use of 'Mississippi' was rhetorical.
All right. 'Religious nuts from Texas', then.
Mississipi gets enough negative press
without people making things up.
With all my heart and soul I apologize heartily to any Mississippians (whose state I have always spelled correctly) whose feelings I may have inadvertently offended.
and Wooly Bully to you too. :>)
Your name says it all.
Why thank you kind person.
That is about the nicest thing anyone ever
said to me...............I think??
Now If I just knew what you are talking
about I could really get excited.
This is an issue where the tenuous alliance between Christian evangelicals and Israelis will unravel. And this will throttle Republican progress among Jewish voters. Evangelicals have no more right to demand that Jews die for their principles than Muslims have to control what cartoonists around the world draw.
The Israeli people have decided that they will not allow religious fanatics of the Christian or Jewish variety to impose policies upon them that they do not want. They have decided that they will not allow others to 'create facts'
AIPAC isn't an Israeli organization, it's an American organization, obviously dealing with US-Israeli relations.
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